Documents from and comments to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Resource Manual, updated November 30, 2012
• Summary of surveillance changes for January 2013 (SSI, CLABSI, CAUTI, VAE, other)
• Table outlining examples of new key terms for 2013 (HAI, device-associated HAI, and transfer rules)
• NHSN December 2012 e-News
• NHSN training course materials October 2-4, 2012

• Ryan White Act Infectious Diseases List and Notification Procedures for Emergency Response Employees, CDC final notice, November 2, 2011  
• APIC comments, February 7, 2011
• CDC request for comments, December 13, 2010

• Prevention strategies for seasonal influenza in healthcare settings, CDC guidance, September 16, 2010 
• APIC response, July 20, 2010
• CDC updated guidance draft, June 22, 2010     

• Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections, CDC document, April 1, 2011 
• APIC response to draft guidelines, December 3, 2009

• Guideline for prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections, CDC/Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) document, December 29, 2009 
• APIC response to draft guideline, July 2, 2009  

Other documents

• CDC report on unsafe injection practices and severe staph infections, July 2012
• CDC's guidance for control of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, June 2012
• CDC single‐dose/single‐use vial position and messages, April 27, 2012
• CDC's proposed new surveillance definition algorithm for ventilator-associated events (VAE), March 2012
  
  
• Report from the CDC and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials on Policies for Eliminating Healthcare-Associated Infections: Lessons Learned from State Stakeholder Engagement, January 2012
  
  
• State plans to address healthcare-associated infections
• CDC guidance  

• State seasonal influenza requirements for hospital employees and patients, CDC table  

• Information about the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network  

• Moving toward elimination of healthcare-associated infections: a call to action, a joint white paper between APIC, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Infectious Diseases Society of America, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, and the CDC, October 7, 2010 

• Infection control measures for influenza in healthcare settings, CDC question and answer guide, July 15, 2010 
• Respiratory protection for infection control measures for 2009 H1N1 Influenza among healthcare personnel, CDC question and answer guide, October 14, 2009 
• Infection control measures for 2009 H1N1 Influenza in healthcare settings, including protection of healthcare personnel, CDC interim guidance, July 23, 2009 
• HICPAC H1N1 Influenza working group recommendation, July 23, 2009 

• CDC fact sheet on tuberculosis (TB)   
• Preventing transmission of mycobacterium TB in healthcare settings, CDC guidelines, December 30, 2005